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It has taken three years and some 5000 development staff, but finally, the successor to the Windows Server 2003 enterprise operating system is here. At the APAC Launch Wave Media Summit held in Singapore, details of this and two other key products in the Microsoft portfolio – Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 – were revealed to regional media.
Chris Sharp, General Manager, Server & Tools, Microsoft APAC, described the advances in Windows Server 2008 in terms of four key elements: Web – delivering rich Web-based experiences efficiently and effectively; Virtualization – optimized infrastructure and improving server availability; Security – unprecedented levels of network and data protection; Solid Foundation – providing flexibility and robustness to cope with varying workloads and business changes.
Security innovations include PatchGuard, which helps prevent attacks that use patching of kernel structures to manipulate functionality. In addition, Windows Service Hardening prevents critical server services from being compromised by abnormal activity in the file system, registry, or network.
Speaking about his experience in the Windows Server 2008 Early Adopter Program, Ratnam Subramaniam, Group IT Manager for semiconductor company CARSEM Malaysia, described the test phase as being “smooth”. Minor issues with Virtualization were resolved in a timely manner by Dell and Microsoft, he said. The test environment at CARSEM comprised two servers installed with Windows Server 2008 (Release Candidate 1) linked to 10 PCs running Vista.
